Cigar-machine pasting device



June 3U, 1925.

R. E. RUNDELL CIGAR MACHINE PASTING DEVICE Filed. Dec. 5, 1923 li atented June 3%, lfid.

RUPERT E RUNDELL, OF ROCKVILLE CENTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO INTER- NATIQNAL CIGAR MACHINERY COMFANY, A CORPORATION 01 NEW JERSEY.

CIGAR-MACHINE IPAS'IING DEVICE Application filed December 3, 1923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUPERT E. RUNDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockville Center, county of Nassau, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cigar-Machine Pasting Devices, of which the following is a specification. i

This invention relates to an improvement in cigar machine pasting devices.

In cigar making machines, particularly those in which fresh bunches are made, a binder is placed on a bunch rolling table prior to the enclosure of a charge of filler in the binder and paste is applied to the binder on the rolling table before the charge enclosing operation occurs. The paste conveyor automatically travels between paste receiving position and the bunch rolling table where it delivers paste once during each machine cycle of operations. It sometimes happens that the operator whose duty it is to place binders on the rolling table, fails to properly position the binder on the table before the paste conveyor reaches paste delivering position, and in that event the paste is applied not to the binder, but to the table itself. Then, when the binder is properly positioned on the table, the paste is on the wrong side of the binder and'the latter sticks to the table. The main object of the present invention is the production of a device which eliminates this trouble by reventing the paste conve or from deliver- 111g paste to the bunch ro ing table when a binder is not in proper position thereon. With this and other objects not specifically mentioned in view, the invention consists in certain constructions and combinations which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically set forth in the claims hereunto appended.

In the drawings, which form a part of this specification and in which like characters of reference indicate the same or like parts, Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a device constructed in accordance with the invention, showing the paste conveying means in paste receiving position by means of the dotted lines, and showing the paste conveying means in paste delivering position by means of the full lines; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the structure shown in. Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a part of the device shown in Fig. 1 and illustrating the Serial No. 678,350.

paste conveying means in incapacitating position.

In carrying the invention into effect, there is provided paste conveying meansnormally traveling to end fro between paste receiv ing and delivering positions, the latter being table. There is also provided means selectively active on said conveying means to incapacitate it or prevent it from delivering paste to the bunch rolling table when there is no binder lying thereupon, and for rehabilitating said conveying means during its travel. In the best constructions, the incapacitating and rehabilitating means includes devices for diverting the conveying means from the paste delivering position when this is necessary and the incapacitating means is manuall operative. In the best constructions'a so, the incapacitating and rehabilitating means includes a controlling member traveling with the conveying means and a tiltable device also traveling with said conveying means. The above mentioned means, devices and parts may be .(in the device illustrated) a bunch rolling widely varied in construction within the provided a paste conveying means which,

as shown, consists of apasting wheel 5 mounted on a stud 6 carriedby a stem 7 which is clamped in a boss 8 formed on a lever 910. This lever is fulcrumed on a stud 11 mounted in the -upper end of an arm 12, the lowerend of this arm being fast on a shaft 13 journaled in a bracket 14 adapted to be mounted on the cigar machine in connection with which the device is used. Fast on the end of the shaft 13 opposite the arm 12 is an arm 15, the free end of which is pivoted on a stud 16 carried by an adjustable connecting rod 17 which is cam actuated by means not shown but well known in the art and operated at the proper time to cause the pasting wheel to travel to and fro between paste receiving and delivering positions, the delivering position being the table 4 before referred to.

Mounted on a stud 18 in the same horizontal plane as the shaft 13 is a parallel arm 19 and the upper end of this arm carries a stud 2O engaging a link 21 which also engages the pin 11 before referred to.

Means are also provided for supplying paste to the pasting wheel at paste receiving position; and as shown, this means consists in a paste supply drum 22 which runs partly submerged in a paste reservoir 23 supported by the bracket 14 before referred to. The paste drum is fast on a shaft 24 to one end of which is secured a pulley 25 over which runs a belt 26 deriving its motion from one of the shafts of the cigar machine in connection with which the device is used. That part of the mechanism so far described is old and well known in the art and since a more detailed description thereof is unnecessary to a full understanding of the present invention, it is omitted in the interest of brevity.

The pasting wheel'5 normally travels to and fro between the paste supplying drum 22 and the rolling table 4. To avoid the delivery of paste to the rolling table when there is no binder thereupon, devices are provided for diverting the roller 5 from the table 4; or in other words, from paste delivering position. WVith this end in view, the arm 12 is providedwith two separated bosses 27-28 which are pierced longitudinally to receive a controlling member or rod 29 which is slidable therein. This rod is provided with a collar 30 between the bearings 27 and 28, and between the collar 30 and the bearing 28 a thrust spring 31 is coiled around the rod 29: This spring normally acts to hold the controlling rod 29 in the position shown in Fig. 1. The controlling member is, however, manually operable to move it to the position shown in Fig. 3, and this movement is accomplished by means of a clip 32 fast to the rod 29 and a cord 33 fast to the clip'32 and running over an idle pulley 34 to a position where it is convenient for operation by the machine operator who places binders on the rolling table. By the mechanism just described, the upper end of the controlling rod 29 is movable at the will of the operator into and out of the path of a tiltable device including abracket 35, having a T-head 36 carrying at its opposite ends adjusting screws 37 and 38. The adjusting screw 38 coacts with the lever arm 10 before referred to. The bracket 35 has a depending boss 39 in which is nected to the bracket 35 and the other to the link 21, serves to hold the latch 41 in engagement either with the end or with the notch of the pin 42.

The dotted lines in Fig. 1 show the parts in the position they occupy when the asting wheel 5 is in paste receiving pos tion, that is to say, in contact with the rotating paste supply drum 22. By inspection of Fig. 1, it will be noted that at this time the latch 41 is in engagement with the notched pin 42. The arms 12 and 19 are now operated by means of the connecting rod 17, and the pasting wheel 5 travels from paste receiving position over to paste delivering position. Assuming that a binder has been properly placed upon the rolling table 4, the controlling rod 29 is left in the position shown in Fig. 1,'and just as the pasting wheel 5 moves over the rolling table 4, the

ing wheel 5 comes .in contact with the paste supply drum 22. This contact results in lifting the pasting wheel 5 and permitting the spring 43 to act to relatch the parts, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. When, however, the operator has not had time to properly position a binder on the rolling table before the pasting roller 5 reaches paste delivering position, she pulls the cord 33, thus-retracting the controlling rod 29 so that the adjusting screw 40 will not strike it, and the pin 42 will not be unlatched. When this occurs, the pastingwheel is held above the rolling table, as shown in Fig. 3, and returns without delivering an paste to cause trouble at the next cycle 0 operations.

What is claimed is:

1. In a cigar machine pasting device, the combination with paste conveying means normally traveling to and fro between paste receiving and delivering positions, of means selectively active on said conveying means .to incapacitate and rehabilitate it during its travel. 7

2. In a cigar machine pasting device, the combination with paste conveying means normally traveling to and fro between paste receiving and delivering positions, of means selectively active on said conveying means to incapacitate and rehabilitate it during its travel and including devices for diverting said conveying means from paste delivering position. 7

3. In a cigar machine pasting device, the

combination with paste conveying means masses normally traveling to and fro between paste receiving and delivering positions, of means selectively active on said conveying means to incapacitate and rehabilitate it during its travel, said incapacltating means being manually operable.

4. In a cigar machine pasting device, the combination with paste conveying means normally traveling to and fro between paste receivin and delivering positions, of means selective y active on saidconveyingmeans to incapacitate and rehabilitate it during its travel and including a controlling member traveling with said conveying-means;

5. 'In a cigar machine pasting device, the

combination with paste conveying means normally traveling to and fro between paste receiving and delivering positions, of means selectively active on said conveying means to incapacitate and rehabilitate it during its travel and including a spring-pressed and cord-actuated controlling member traveling with said conveying means.

combination with paste conveying means normally traveling to and fro between paste receiving and delivering positions of means selectively active, on said conveying means to incapacitate and rehabilitate it during its travel, and movable means for supplying paste to said conveying means at paste receiving position.

7. In a cigar machine pasting device, the combination with paste conveying means normally traveling to and fro between paste receiving and delivering positions, of means selectively active on said conveying means to incapacitate and rehabilitate it duringits travel, said conveying means including a tiltable device controlling its action adjacent paste delivering position, and said incapacitating means including a controlling member movablein and out of thepath of said tiltable device.

8. In a cigar machine pasting device, the combination with paste conveying means normally traveling to and fro between paste receivin and delivering position, of means selectively active on said conveyingmeans to incapacitate and rehabilitate it during its travel, said conveying means including two parallel oscillating arms supporting the paste conveying medium and a tiltable device pivoted to one of said arms and controlling the action of said conveying means 6. In a cigar machine pasting device, theadjacent paste delivering position, and said incapacitating means including a controlling member slidable on the other of said arms in and out of the path of said tiltable member.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

RUPERT n. nnNn-E. 

